Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-03-16
Esrs. Mackay's Career

l "This l. indeed peculiar world,
 said inning expert st the Planters
 hausa yrsiefdaY. Here pick uf
 the papers aud read of Mrs. Maekay's
 ooangs ID PAris--how she receives tbe
 soioas oi royalty. hos she eR,estils.
 and how she dues a thousand ether
 thing. and then. I csa searcly eonce.ve
 that elgtteen yesrs ago she kepi q
 boarding house h Virginia city, and that
 was orc of her boardsrs, Yet t Is true. often ponder oscT il she was q young widow lhen, wta an interest ing child, who has since ms;Ired into a young lady, ard was recently married 10 an Italian prince of some kind. The itie giTl has of,en sat on my knee ~itn a lt.ie can in hes hand which con
 tiiaed the conuiou iDns of her admirers
 In those days We lived principally on
 canned food, and Mrs. Miokey's back
 yard was paved wit tn cans. The child
 bad selected very pretty can, which
 ore of the boarders had transformed
 into lu.e bank Thii WIS patty filled
 wilh cum. the result of q iii5ute levied
 on her friends. She would ollmb on tse
 Ooirders' knees, and shaking her II t
 park, would ssy: "ls you lucky t3-dals 
 This had the desi,ed effect. anu the bank
 recent, were increased. Even in heI
 days oi G.Stress, Ms. Mackay was 2 god woman Sae personally attended af4.rs, and made her bosrders as com fortable as possible. was sape'ia,en- dert nnder Far. and Msekey was already a millionaire. Mining stock was ihe rage then, and l remember of,sn how she would come to ue ard some of the ether bo4ToeIs and ask our advice ab u; G tain stocks, and l am hsppY t. say thst the ad,ice gave her WAS good, ard
 If had taken myself l would now be S5.ooo. .eoo or S6,ooo,ooo better of i54n I am no~.
 Then Msokey taok shire 10 tte widow. and bang repuiod one of tae wealihiast men m he cams he tounc smooth soiiag. He couldn's VII On hi, shape nor his b-auty, for eveiyhody who | has seen Mickey knc~s ,h4- ae woulia'l | ke fr;ze in oong'ess of bralts. Tie, were married, and the i IL ii, n, longer st on the miners knees. ancl namma's' deiics,9 hand 10 i9nge' | placed corn-beet and cabbage on nj er's plates. They rose fasler than Sher, iar .took Gid last summer, the oniy ciff-T- -nce beng that their rise vas backed bY ,ard coin. The gr-al Comsrock lode .on'iaued 10 pour fo'!h l. richness anc Aacksy and his partner became int nensely wealthy Although reared 1T ,oor circumstances, Mfrs. Mick7y showed Ter good sense ty seSllfirg a priV1te tu- pr. ny whom she was drilled ard ttiu- ated for five years. Toe li,tis daus ter ias put through tae same course and i.ed 10 shine Tn lhe mot cultured so- ltty of the old world. Then came ,he onqueS's in New 10 k. san Fran,i'co, nd finally lhe uips 70 Europe A y.n go l was in PGi,, and one evening at- .ndsd performance al the Grand Or ra house II was a first nis [, anu romiaent in pTivae box were two la ies, bedeoked with cilmonds and fes- 'oned vii a)wers. They were the Tncsure of all eyes, and. lzveling n, asses, discovered behind the silks, 1wers and almonds he face of ny rmer lAndl1dy in V.rsi il Cry. Tn, q lines were the same. blt time had roughl its changes. The young lac, nh her was tle ltr'e gul who used to ay on my knee. Sh- had grown out my reooilecuon.-Ss Louis Repuo..-